On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 06:10:32PM -0300, mnicolet wrote: > Hello > I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian > distros. But I had no time to go too far. > Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of > > 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial mouse. Using some utility > ( don?t remember which one ), the mouse is correctly seen as attached to > /dev/ttyS0. Main parameters as shown by stty seems correct, by example baud > rate is 1200. /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/ttyS0. > When I configure XFree86, xf86config correctly guess what the mouse device > is. > But when X and KDE are up, I have no mouse response. Of course, I need to go > to console mode. What protocol does your XF86Config file have set for the mouse? > Is there a console mouse test and trouble-shooting utility ? Package: mdetect Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 80 Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.5.1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) Filename: pool/main/m/mdetect/mdetect_0.5.1_i386.deb Size: 15808 MD5sum: 287f0784207c76f819562ce619ef6f41 Description: mouse device autodetection tool mdetect is a tool for autoconfiguring mice; it is typically used as the backend to some user-friendly frontend code. mdetect writes the autodetected mouse device and protocol (as used by gpm) to standard output. It can be invoked so as to produce output appropriate for XFree86 X server configuration files. > 2) at installation, I don?t remembered what the NIC card was, so I skipped > over all net installation, exception, of course, the local loopback. > Later, using lspci, I discovered what my Ethernet card is, and using modconf > I could configure/start the correct driver. > To test it, I configured manually the eth0 interface, and it works ok. I can > ping my LAN machines, and also did some ftp transfers. > But I don?t know how to: > - add the eth0 ifconfig to the boot or init scripts > - where and how ( route ? ) to set the gateway ( I am sharing my Net conn > using a NAT server ) /etc/network/interfaces - example, modify to suit: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.3 > - where to put my ISP DNS address /etc/resolv.conf - eg. nameserver 195.40.1.36 -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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